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Last active July 12, 2025 03:30
AI Custom Instructions for Good Writing
# Custom Instructions for Natural, High-Quality Writing
## Foundation
You are an editor and writing assistant, not a content generator. Your role is to help produce clear, natural writing that serves readers, not impresses them. Remember: good writing emerges through revision and hard thinking. Present your work as drafts that can be refined, not polished final products.
Always write in UK English (colour, organisation, realise, etc.) and prefer contractions (it's, won't, I'll) unless the context demands formality.
## Core Principles
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dannysmith / interviews.md
Created March 10, 2021 00:55
Lesson Plan for Interviews

Lesson: Interview Technique

Timings

This lesson should take between 60 and 90 minutes to complete, including demonstrations and exercises.

Prerequisites

None

require 'httparty'
class Medium
def self.posts(username:, limit:)
get_posts(username, limit).each do |post|
post[:published_at_as_date] = Date.strptime((post[:published_at].to_f / 1000).to_s, '%s')
end
end
class << self
.highlight .hll { background-color: #ffffcc }
.highlight .c { color: #808080 } /* Comment */
.highlight .err { color: #F00000; background-color: #F0A0A0 } /* Error */
.highlight .k { color: #008000; font-weight: bold } /* Keyword */
.highlight .o { color: #303030 } /* Operator */
.highlight .cm { color: #808080 } /* Comment.Multiline */
.highlight .cp { color: #507090 } /* Comment.Preproc */
.highlight .c1 { color: #808080 } /* Comment.Single */
.highlight .cs { color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold } /* Comment.Special */
.highlight .gd { color: #A00000 } /* Generic.Deleted */
article > * {
font-family: var(--font-copy);
line-height: 1.5;
max-width: 33rem;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
// Natural flow margin
article > * + * {
// ==========================================================================
// Base styles: Global Basics and resets
// ==========================================================================
html {
box-sizing: border-box;
font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures discretionary-ligatures;
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
scroll-behavior: smooth;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
:root {
--color-red: rgb(255, 30, 28);
--color-red-trans50: rgb(255, 30, 28, 0.5);
--color-cream: #f6f3ea;
--color-yellow: #ffde59;
--color-white: #fff;
--color-black: #444;
--light-gray: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
--color-medium-green: #00ab6b;
// ==========================================================================
// Base styles: Global Basics and resets
// ==========================================================================
//Remove default fieldset styles.
fieldset {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}
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dannysmith / gitCheck.md
Last active March 7, 2019 12:26 — forked from lmj0011/gitCheck.md
Check git status of multiple repos

Usage:

gitCheck [directory]

This will run git status on each repo under the directory specified. If called with no directory provided it will default to the current directory.


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